Mass-Storage Drives; Hard Disk Drives; Flexible Disk Drives - HP Vectra VE5 3 Series Technical Reference Manual

3 Interface Boards and Mass-Storage Drives

Mass-Storage Drives

Mass-Storage Drives
The IDE controller is described on page 18. The flexible disk controller is
described on page 21.
Drivers for the IDE controller are provided on the flexible diskette that is
supplied with the computer (5063-9036) for Windows for Workgroups 3.11.
At the time of release, these bear the version number M1202.

Hard Disk Drives

A 3.5-inch hard disk drive is supplied on an internal shelf in some models.
HP product number
Manufacturer
Product name
Interface
Random average seek time (read)
Spindle speed
Cylinders
Heads (logical)
Sectors per track
Disks
Heads (physical)
Tracks per surface
Total tracks
Total user sectors
Bytes per sector
Formatted storage capacity
Total buffer size
External burst rate (PIO mode)
External burst rate (PIO mode+ IORDY)
External burst rate (DMA)
Sound pressure at 1m (idle)

Flexible Disk Drives

A 3.5-inch, 1.44 MB flexible disk drive (D2035B) is supplied on the top
front-access shelf of all models.
32
1 GB IDE 850 MB IDE
D2787A D2749A
Western Digital Seagate
Caviar AC21000 Typhoon
ATA AT
11 to 14 ms (read) 14 ms
13 to 16 ms (write)
5200 rpm 3800 rpm
2100 1647
16 16
63 63
2 2
4 4
4044 4072
16176 16288
2 116 800 1 660 176
512 512
1080 MB 850.0 MB
128 KB 128 KB
12.5 MB/s 6.7 MB/s
16.7 MB/s (mode 4) 16.7 MB/s (mode 4)
16.7 MB/s 16.7 MB/s
30 dBA 29 dBA